Arrow keys type capital letters instead of moving the cursor

Question

I\'ve installed the latest vim using homebrew and also installed mac-vim from the google code homepage. in mac-vim everything works fine. but when I run vim in terminal.app in m

Answer 1

This is usually caused by the wrong $TERM environment variable. Not sure which ones are supported on your system but you can try with "linux" or "vt320":

export TERM=linux